In the evening we love getting the boys out the house to kick the ball around. Mr. Sam and the boys had a great time. Boys enjoying time together and making sure to show Mr. Sam who is boss.
The Squad
Football Crazy!
On Saturdays We Climb!
Eduardo, Martin, Sam, Emir and Quique joined the Climbing Club this weekend. Lots of time spent on new challenges and tougher boulder problems.
The boys are focusing a lot more on not concentrating all of their strength through upper body but using thier legs more. Prioritising footwork and body positioning is key to finding their centre of balance, once they start putting these techniques in place their climbing level will sky rocket.
Keep your feet up Edu!
Push with your legs Martin!
Just hanging out with Sam
Started from the bottom now we’re here – Emir
Swinging from the top
Fancy footwork
A Calm Moment to Watch a Film
Celebrating Friday nights in. Sam found the weather too cold this evening so we decided to watch a comedy film together in the common room.
A sofa all to himself.
So Many Books, So Little Time – Frank Zappa
Calm down time and having a little read with the Grade 8s. It is nice to see them in their own worlds and how their vocabulary is flourishing each time we run through the tricky words.
Top words of the evening:
Resignedly: (adverb) in a way that expresses giving in to the insistence of another or to circumstances beyond one’s control.
Busted: (adjective) in trouble; caught doing something bad or wrong.
Hyper: (adjective) overexcited; overstimulated.
Fanbo, Javi & Firdavs – Caught in the plot.
Jiarui found a quiet spot to himself.
Honours Recognition Assembly
Well done to our young ones for being great students. Our Head of Boarding Mr. Usher wanted to give a big thank you to the students for being great examples here at Collège du Léman. Our Concha representatives are Alex, Juze, Eduardo and Fanyang – good job boys and keep it up!
Congratulations!
Juze & Fanyang on stage.
What A Wednesday!
Wednesday are always quite a busy day, with so much going on that it goes by in the blink of an eye!
For our international dinner, we enjoyed some delicious Chinese food!
Our dear Mr. Jack reunited with the lads!
Yet another round of spot the Roner!
Nice to see that Gianni’s evolved to a thumbs up!
Matthew and Vincent, livin’ la vida loca like usual
“Wait, wait! Daniel will be here in a sec, he’s just going for round 3!”
After our House Meeting, all the boys gathered round to see their rewards for being punctual and discuss some trading strategies.
Samwise hunting for rewards, no one is safe!
Pillar 3: Building Positive Relationships
This evening we launched Pillar 3 of our Well being Program!
This pillar focuses on building positive relationships, and what better way to kick it off than to talk about one of the most important relationships you could ever cultivate: the one with yourself.
Self-acceptance, self-love, understanding your emotions and your thoughts; these are all vital aspects of positive friendships as they impact they way you interact and develop relationships with others.
We spoke about how self-acceptance can be difficult sometimes, especially at this age and provided some tips to help our boys in case they found themselves struggling with it.
Lastly, we played a game where we threw a ball around and each of us said something we liked about ourselves or that we felt proud of. It was lovely to see that so many people were quite proud of helping others! There was a lot of giggling and clapping, but overall a lovely way to get the boys to see how great they really are.
Joao’s turn with the ball!
Xīnnián Kuàilè!
This evening some of our boys celebrated the Lunar New Year by going out and enjoying a meal together!
Some of our boys stayed home, but we celebrated with them here by ordering some delicious food of our own and sitting down to eat it together here in Concha!
Strumming Time!
This evening, our very own Daniel, courageous that he is, performed for us in the High School Musical Showcase!
Novel Nights
Tonight we enjoyed another round of our Reading Club!
We had quite a few new words tonight, and the boys had a lot of fun coming up with examples of how the words would be used.
Many words were quite similar and context was important to define them, like whisper and muttered or astonished and perturbed.
Some words made it quite clear the tone of the chapter they were reading, like paranoia, bitterly, and fitful.
Others were more whimsical, like glitter, brandish, decorate and soapy.
And then there’s copperplate…which is just fun to say.
